re: #391 Killgore Trout

This should not have been a national story in the first place. Kids or various races every day. Why did Rush, Drudge and Malkin all decide it was an important national issue? The only answer I can see is that they wanted to create the impression that whites are under attack.
This story had nothing to do with Obama’s policies and was an obvious attempt to stir up racial tensions.

Killgore - if you recall, after the election, there were some folks writing at different places, including here, posting stories about how their interactions with black colleagues and /or just folks they came across in the street had changed, the black folks seemed “uppity” is the best word I can think of.

I never saw any of that happening. Ever. And I live pretty damned far south, and in a city that’s close to 50% minority, and you would think that if that was gonna happen, I surely would have seen it. But I did not see it then, nor do I see it now. I think at least some of the people posting those stories were seeing what they wanted to see, because of their biases. Or they were just flat-out lying.

That is the audience, and those are the people Rush was talking to in this piece. You are correct, I think - Rush and others are trying to create an impression that whites are under attack which is, as you ay, an obvious attempt to stir up racial tension.